Origen
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Yet Christian teachers such as Origen of Alexandria vigorously disputed such assumptions.
From Washington Post • Jan. 27, 2022
Origen, the scholar and Church Father, born late in the second century A.D., tended to believe that, in the end, all would be spared.
From The New Yorker • Jan. 14, 2019
In the third century A.D., it is widely believed, the great Catholic theologian Origen, working on roughly the same principle, castrated himself.
From New York Times • Nov. 25, 2017
Origen Adamantius, a third-century theologian, believed the wicked were punished after death, but only long enough for their souls to repent and be restored to their original state of purity.
From National Geographic • May 13, 2016
The controversy between Origen and Celsus furnishes us with a very curious illustration of the extravagances into which some Pagans of the third century fell about animals.
From History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) by Lecky, William Edward Hartpole
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